{"id":604,"date":"2011-04-11T23:51:06","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T23:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=604"},"modified":"2015-04-08T18:48:12","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T18:48:12","slug":"across-the-universe-by-beth-revis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=604","title":{"rendered":"Across the Universe by Beth Revis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-735 size-full\" title=\"Across the Universe\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Across-the-Universe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This book begins on Earth, with Amy and her parents preparing to be cryogenically frozen.\u00a0 They are about to be packed onto a spaceship [Godspeed], hoping\u00a0to travel for 300 years, become reanimated (thawed out), and then terraform a faraway planet (make it livable\/like Earth).\u00a0\u00a0Amy overhears the workers saying that the launch has been delayed a year.\u00a0 One whole year she could have spent with her family and friends\u00a0on Earth!\u00a0 As these thoughts send her into despair, she is glad\u00a0that they won\u2019t last long; she will be unable to think once she\u2019s frozen.\u00a0 But, then, she is frozen\u2026 and she is still capable of thought.\u00a0 Still conscious of the passing time.\u00a0 Talk about a torturous existence!\u00a0\u00a0Then someone unplugs her a full 50 years before the estimated landing time, and she will be older than her parents by the time they are reanimated.\u00a0 Chapters alternate between Amy and a guy named Elder, who will soon be the leader of the people aboard Godspeed.\u00a0 If you like dystopias and science fiction, you HAVE to read this book!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book begins on Earth, with Amy and her parents preparing to be cryogenically frozen.\u00a0 They are about to be packed onto a spaceship [Godspeed], hoping\u00a0to travel for 300 years, become reanimated (thawed out), and then terraform a faraway planet (make it livable\/like Earth).\u00a0\u00a0Amy overhears the workers saying that the launch has been delayed a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=604\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Across the Universe by Beth Revis<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}